Thursday, August 25, 2005

Antik Denim lawsuit

According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, Blue Holdings, Inc. the maker of high end Antik Denim jeans filed suit against alleged knock off makers Turn On Products Inc. and Alloy Inc. Blue Holdings brought suit as the start of "an aggressive campaign to prevent counterfeiting of Antik’s signature back pocket design." Antik Denim's press release states:

The unique design in question is copyrighted, and is the subject of pending trademark and design patent registration claims. Antik expects to file at least three more similar lawsuits before the end of the week, alleging that additional companies are violating federal and state trademark, copyright, unfair trade practices and unfair competition statutes and laws.

In case you're wondering, this is what the back pocket design looks like. Be prepared to pay over $200 for a pair of Antik Denim jeans.

A peak into how the 'Next Blog' feature works

I started a blog for my wife's Discovery Toys business located at dublintoys.blogspot.com. Since it's fairly new, I didn't expect to get hits from search engines on it yet. But I did get hits from Blogger'sNext Blog feature. That feature takes a visitor from one Blogger blog to a random Blogger blog. But here's the interesting thing. Instead of getting hits evenly distributed throughout the month, we only recieved hits within a one hour period on one particular day. The rest of the hits are from me either visiting or updating the blog. The above graph shows the spike in hits resulting from the "Next Blog" visitors.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Ohio House passes data breach disclosure law

To amend sections 1345.51 and 1347.01 and to enact sections 1347.12, 1349.19, 1349.191, and 1349.192 of the Revised Code to require a state agency, person, or business to contact individuals residing in Ohio if unencrypted or unredacted personal information about those individuals that is maintained on the computers of the agency, person, or business is obtained by unauthorized persons and to authorize the Attorney General to investigate and enforce compliance with the requirements.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

September 11 Oral History

Many of you may be aware of The New York Times'efforts in obtaining the September 11 tapes and records from the City of New York. Here's a link (PDF) to the decision that cleared the way for the release.

Braylon Edwards and Cleveland Browns Ink Deal

A personal services clause can be very lucrative to a team or a player. Last year rookie QB Ben Roethlisberger made around .5 million dollars in endorsement deals, no doubt a tidy little sum the Steelers would have liked to have. Edwards has been modeling and preparing himself for endorsement deals for a couple of years now and is not about to give up the potential money it will bring him to acquire more bling. Edwards was somewhat criticized this year at the NFL Draft for showing up wearing a 0,000 watch, hence the moniker 'bling king'.From the Browns perspective they don't want to have a contract with say Reebok and then have Edwards out pimping Nike. The Browns could lose out on both ends, not having one of their most popular players promoting the team endorser and not getting any of the funds from deals struck by Edwards and his agent. Just think, all along everyone thought they were arguing over guaranteed money. Turns out there is a lot more money to be gained in the endorsement arena then on the football field.

Monday, August 08, 2005

Howard Stern Sues Google for Overbilling, Seeks Class Action Status

Howard Stern and an industrial printing firm launched a lawsuit against Google last week, alleging that the search engine giant fails to live up to its promises regarding the daily budget limits that AdWords users can place over their accounts. The plaintiffs are seeking class action status. They say that Google's daily budget limits are misrepresented and that Google "continues to bill plaintiffs and all other members of the class in excess of the daily budgets," creating in effect a monthly budget limit made up of the sum of the daily budget multiplied by the number of days in the month.

Heading to a comic book convention to launch Aquaman, Vince decides that he overreacted in blackballing Mandy Moore from the film, but when she wants him to be friends with her fiancé, he can't quite play along. The situation gets worse when an influential Internet journalist (who happens to appear fat and geeky) starts asking questions about the co-stars' old fling, and Vince abruptly ends the interview. The Internet journalist (blogger?) then vows to destroy the movie by writing a bad review. Although the guy says he'll change his review if Vince & Co. give him $300,000 in cash, i.e. payola.As the hero of Viking Quest, Drama is a big man at Comicon, and it's his acquaintances - a group of porn-stars turned comic heros -- that finally manage to turn the angry journalist around. Pay to play : ) After a visit from the Pussy Patrol, he deems Vince the perfect Aquaman, and the boys head back to L.A. to celebrate at a U2 concert, courtesy of Ari.

Where's Citizen Media proponent Jeff Jarvis' outrage? In the "real world" of bloggers, this guy's credibility would quickly vanish amongst his loyal readers.But, that doesn't mean bloggers can't make money:For one blogger, fun and profit (According to tax records filed by his employer, the Poynter Institute, Mr. Romenesko (blog: poynter.org/column.asp?id=45) received $169,187 in salary and other compensation in 2003, making him Poynter's highest-paid nonexecutive.)UPDATE: August 11, 2005Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine links to this post here. He's not outraged, he's entertained. And so am I.HBO is lampooning Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News.

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